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Study: Money really does buys happiness in Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay and Miami made the list of best places in the country for retail therapy.

By Louis Llovio
| 1:00 p.m. March 26, 2024
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Report finds that Tampa Bay and Miami are among the best places in the country for retail therapy.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

If the key to happiness in your life is spending money, Florida is the right place to live.

That’s according to a new report from StorageCafe, a self-storage search website that is part of the property management software firm Yardi.

The report, Best U.S. Shopping Hot Spots, places two Florida metropolitan markets atop its list of the places with the greatest overall shopping experiences. It is the only state to have two separate metro markets make the list.

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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.